GE ZHAO
GE ZHAO Address Phone Email Website
190 Claremont Ave Apt. 1C, New York, New York 10027 +1 929-422-5957 zhao.ge@columbia.edu www.ge-zhao.com
EDUCATION Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design
2016 - 2017
Columbia University, GSAPP/New York, NY
Certification, Shape of Two Cities: New York and Paris Program Columbia University, GSAPP/New York, NY
2015 - 2016 (1 year)
Bachelor of Architecture
2010 - 2015
Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology/Xi’an, China
EXPERIENCE Jr. Architectural Designer China Northwest Architecture Design & Research Institute/Xi’an Design development and construction documents for Visitors’ Center at the Scenery and Cultural Spots Design of Dihua Town, and Expansion Project of Mausoleum of Yellow Emperor
Architect Intern China Northwest Architecture Design & Research Institute/Xi’an Assisted in field investigation and project design for the Design of the Xianyang Museum Project
Manager Assistant and Team Leader Coordinated and provided conceptual assistance to the faculty of Architecture & Fine Art, Norwegian University of Science & Technology
Certification, Parametric Design Workshop Tsinghua University, School of Architecture/Beijing, China Enrolled as member of Digital Architecture Design Association, affiliated to Architectural Society of China
Volunteer WuZhiQiao Fund /Gansu Took charge of construction documents of Net Cage Bridge in Sancha Village
Jun. 2013- May. 2014 (1 year)
Sep.2012 - Apr. 2013 (8 months)
Sep. 2013 - Feb. 2014 (6 months)
Jun. - Jul. 2014 (1 month)
Oct. 2013 - Sep. 2014 (1 year)
SKILLS Professional
Programming
Languages
Revit
Python
English
Maya
Processing
Mandarin
ArcGIS
HTML
Rhino
CSS
Grasshopper Adobe Suite AutoCAD Microsoft Suite
AWARDS & PUBLICATIONS Abstract 2017 (expected)
2018
Selected for inclusion in Urban Design Program
Abstract 2016
Jan. 2017
Selected for inclusion in Building Science and Technology
2014 Student’s Works Documents of Exchange Programs of Architecture Schools of China
Feb. 2015
Selected for inclusion in excellent student work and published
Excellent Work of Foreign Exchange Operations of Architecture Exhibition
Mar. 2014
Southeast University School of Architecture/Top Prize
Excellent student of 2014 Parametric Design Workshop
Jul. 2014
Tsinghua University School of Architecture/Top 3
Designed the Logo for HydroChina Corporation America Branch Adopted
Aug. 2013
SELECTED WORKS OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN
01 HEALTH CITY CARE POUGHKEEPSIE
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02 HEALTH KITCHEN
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03 HOLDING RIVER FLOWING RAIN
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04 OUT OF INWOOD
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05 BLUR
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06 UNDER THE PEAK
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07 BUFFALO
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08 PROJECTION FROM GREENWICH VILLAGE HISTORIC BUILDINGS PRESERVATION
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09 JOHANNESBURG
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10 CORALVALUTION
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11 THE REVIVING OF LOST SPACE
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12 UNDER THE WAVES
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13 BAMBOO
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14 FLOWING BARRIERS
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15 TETRIS
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01 HEALTH CITY CARE POUGHKEEPSIE Spatial Justice of Poughkeepsie City Cooperators: Yuting Pan, Chu Li, Fu Wang Fall 2016
Can the city be part of my Healthcare?
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Our project seeks to address the imbalance between healthcare system economic insecurity in the city of Poughkeepsie by proposing distributed healthcare infrastructure and therapeutic landscapes across the neighborhood. The new heath care network intends to make Poughkeepsie a health destination and thus have systemic impact at regional scale.
As the largest industry in Poughkeepsie, healthcare, especially, hospitals are making huge profits. The Vassar Brothers’ Medical Center is undergoing an expansion project which attracted over half a billion investments, making it the largest construction project in history. However, the neighborhood is excluded from the prosperous industry. The enclave campus designs and the car-targeted neighborhood structure physically segregate hospitals from the neighborhood. In this case, we argue that healthcare institutions ought to shoulder up social responsibility and act as a catalyst for community revitalization and economic development.
By dispersing the healthcare related programs, we are also trying to address the psychological perspec- tive of user groups. In hope of alleviating negative connotations of centralized the hospitals, we propose designs that can improvise the medical user experience and increase the interaction with the community.
Step 1 Neighborhood Scale: Three transformative magnets will be established as our therapeutically interfaces offering different types of care based on the surrounding population.
Step 2 City Scale: Tactical street interventions will take place along our identified “healway”. For instance, temporary pop-up plazas, street fitness paths, mile makers, street body metrics.
Step 3 Regional Scale: Following the aforementioned steps, healthcare will become an eminent asset for Poughkeepsie in establish- ing collaboration with other Mid-Hudson River Region cities.
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H E A LT H C I T Y C ARE POUGH KEEPSIE
IBM Poughkeepsie Constructed
Dutchess County
City of Poughkeepsie
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1915
1920
1925
1930
1935
1940
1945
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1948
Soft infrastructure is carrying the city
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1955
1960
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45,000
Unemployment Rate %
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Employments in Comupters and Office Equipment Jobs (thousands)
49,100
40,000
500
IBM PC Project
10.1%
10
46,700 (peak)
+115%
35,000
8.9%
400 IBM Employments 8 in Hudson Valley 30,000 300
2007-2009 Great Recession in U.S. 10.1%
37,800
37,700
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25,000 29,000 IBM Manufacturing Venture in Fishkill
-30% 20,000
15,000 1965
1970
1975
1980
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3.3%
2.8%
2.5% 2
1985
1990
1995
2000
2005
Jan 1994
2010
Dec 2006 Jun 1990
IBM Periods
2015
2008
May 2001
Jan 2010
Jun 1993
Healthcare Period
2013
150 AnesthsiAnesthsiologist ologist Pharmaceutical Pharmaceutical Research Research Colleges/ Colleges/ Universities Universities
$292,000 | $408,00 PsychiaPsychiatrist
190 $177,000 | $279,000
950
Physicians Physicians Surgeons Surgeons $150,000 | $228,000
Biomedical Biomedical
Medical Medical Training Center Center
Medical Medical Research Research Center Center
Medical Medical Data Data Serving Serving
Clinic Insititutions Insititutions
650
Physical Physical Therapist Therapist $222,000 | $338,000
3,020 Nurses Nurses $85,200 | $113,000
Training Training Programs Programs
9,880 Medical Medical Consumables Consumables
Care Aids
Healthcare
Medical Medical ManufacManufacturing turing
Employment Growth by 2020
$74,300 | $98,100
Median Income | Top Pay
Shelters
Clinics
Pharmacy Pharmacy
Emergency Room Hospice
Surgery Long Term Licensed Agencies
Clinical
Hospital
Hospital Based
Heart Center
Trauma & Emergency Center Pharmacy
Home Healthcare Agency
Primary Care
40% of total Patients
Other Dept.
Waiting Time
Internal Medicine
Nursing Home
Private Insurance
Market Insurance
Community
Medicaid Medicare CHIP
Group Insurance
Insurance Administration
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-2.8
Columbia Memorial Hospital 41.6%
BBG Ventures, LLC Food and beverage manufacturing company that features locally source food.
35 mins
NUTRITIOUS HEALTHY LIFE STYLE
.2%
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Dutchess Community College
+2.3 % .9
Health Alliance Hospital Broadway
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Kingston
More than 70% of the area’s nurses and healthcare workers graduated the school nursing program.
+5.0 Nothern Dutchess Hospital
WIDE RANGE WORKFORCE
15 mins
45 mins
59 mins
Stewart International Airport
New Paltzton
+0.5
+20.8
Mid Hudson Regional Hospital
Catskill Regional Medical Center
39.3%
Monticello
20.8 Millions 1st Highest Net Income 73.0% 2nd Highest Occupancy Rate. 365 3rd Highest Number of Beds
.9%
59 mins
St. Luke's Cornwall Hospital
WELL-TRAINED SPECIALIST
59 mins
.9%
Newburgh
a state-of-the-art osteopathic medical school
Beacon
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+12.7 .2 75
60 mins
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
Orange Regional Medical Center
+9.7
One of the world’s fastest growing biotechnology leaders
-0.6
Putnam Hospital Center 57.5%
Bon Secours Community Hospital
50.2%
.3%
Peekskill
St. Anthony Community Hospital
+9.0
New York Medical College
80.7%
Hospitals
Nyack Hospital
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.9%
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The College of New Rochelle White Plains Hospital Center
Population Per Sq. Mi.
White Plains 292
> 8230 2965-8230 1140-2965 260-1140
Distribution of medical resource in multiple regions
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HEALTHCARE ENTREPRENEURS
73
55.6%
Occupancy Rate
.3%
+3.4 Good Samaritan Hospital of Suffern
Northern Westchester
57
-4.5
Number of Beds
A biotechnology incubator offering shared resources, sponsored professional services to promising, high-potential entrepreneurs
+9.1
Hudson Valley Hospital Center
Net Income/Loss
SUPPLY CHAIN
-2.0 44
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WORLD-WIDE ACCESS
Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine
+13.8
60 mins
%
Middletown
Poughkeepsie
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Vassar Brothers Medical Center
Second longest runway in the state, has unused capacity
+2.3
.0%
73
New healthcare analytics program that brings information technology and healthcare together.
HIGH-TECH HEALTHCARE
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U.S. Dutchess BOCES-School of Practical Nursing
46.9%
St. Francis Hospital
Greystone Programs
Waring Magnet Academy of Science and Technology
Adelphi University School of Social Work
73.0%
Vassar Bros. Medical Center
U.S. Renal Care - Dutchess Dialysis & Home Dialysis Dr. Christopher J. Kruger, MD Dutchess County Dental
Median Household Income ($)
True North Chiropractic
> 100,000
Aspen Dental
Pearie Vision
80,000 - 100,000
Orthopedic Associates of Dutchess County
40,000 - 80,000 25,000 - 40,000 < 25,000
Laerdal Medical Corporation
Nursing training school Dutchess Community College
Health/Medical Professionals
MidHudson Regional Hospital of Westchester Medical Center St. Francis Hospital
Hudson River Health Care
New River Valley Care Center Hudson River Health Care Unlimited Care
Lexington Center For Recovery Inc
Planned Parenthood
Comprehesive Hospital (Insurance required)
Caremount Medical Group
Primary Care
Cherie L. Freeman, LPN Health Quest Medical Practice
Clinical: Heart Center Trauma Surgery Internal Medicine Emergency Center
The Pines at Poughkeepsie Center for Nursing
Vassar Brothers Medical Center Hudson River Health Care Health Quest Systems Fox Street
Vassar Brothers Rehabilation Services Compassion Veterinary Health Center Intergrative Health Care for Women: Kristen Jemiolo MD Hudson Valley Family Eye Care
Community Primary Care
Any-Time Home Care
Beltone Hearing Aid Center
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Social Injustice between medical system and downtown
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Marist College Marist College Art Gallery
MidHudson Regional Hospital HRHCare Atrium Health Center Health and Fitness Centers Abilities First School
The Heart Center
Mid-Hudson Workshop
Laboratory Labcorp Poughkeepsie
Poughkeepsie Child Development Center Vacant Warehouse
Pulaski Park
Underutilized Open Space
Vacant Lot City Hall - City of Poughkeepsie
Nursing Home
Main
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Mid Hudson Family Health Institute Underutilized Parking Space
Department of Social Services United Way of Dutchess County
Planned Parenthood
Underutilized Parking Space
Community Health Clinic
Eye Care Center Hudson Retina Vacant Office Building
Eastman Park CareMount Medical Therapist Nursing Home New Horizons Resources
Vassar Brothers Medical Center
Tabernacle Christian Academy
Retirement Community
Existing condition between the two hospitals
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Body Matrix Lighting System Mile Marker Bike Lane
Souvenir Shop Access to Walkway Access to Fall Kill
Pop-up Cafe Pop-up Plaza Research Lab
Fitness Center Mural Playground
NATURE
Indoor Swimming Pool
CIVIC
Community Training
COMMUNITY
Bike Share
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Pop-up Yoga/Street Fitness
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Medical expansion master plan and tactical street interventions
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Medical examination center combines multi-generation playground with sharing circulation and supporting space
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Downtown area takes advantage of walk-ability becoming a medical information hub for the Hudson Valley
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Medical Facilities anchored neighborhoods and urban reviving area 30
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02 HEALTH KITCHEN CO-CITY: The City as a collective, cooperative, shared space Cooperators: Ahmed Jawdat, Dongfang Pang, Tianyang Xie Summer 2016
Is gentrification the destiny of Manhattan?
G E Z HAO
Hellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kitchen is facing a tense developing pressure from both the surrounding skyscrapers and the growth of Hudson Yard. Even under a preservation from zoning policy, this historical neighborhood has to find its new role for the city. This project proposes a Sharing Common Garden above these traditional tenements. By running a Community Cooperation system, the rooftop garden can not only get economic benefits, will also become an urban infrastructure dealing with ecological issues.
Issue 1 Storm Water: Using the thick soil to postpone storm water, largely decreasing the pressure of the NYC underground sewage system.
Issue 2 Heat Island: Green roof is always an environmentally friendly strategy to save the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s energy consuming, especially in such a dense area.
Issue 3 Biodiversity: Increasing biodiversity can help cleaning the air and also serving the green plants inside the metropolitan.
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Hellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kitchen in multiple regional characters
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CENTRAL PARK
COLUMBUS CIRCLE
TIMES SQUARE
1890
PORT AUTHORITY BUS TERMINAL
1910 1915
AVERAGE INCOME
RENTAL PRICE
FAR BUILDING YEAR
2000
59th STREET
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2023 42nd STREET
HUDSON YARD
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Developing pressure of the historical neighborhood
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Propose to solve urban issues to define a new role for the neighborhood
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BIRDS
BUTTERFLIES
BEES
SQUIRRELS
LARVAE & INSECTS
HABITIAT FOR SPECIIES POLLINATION
AESTHETIC COLORFUL GARDEN
NATURAL FLORAL SCENTS
SHADE/ WET
HARD SURFACE
SOFT SURFACE
SUN/ DRY
VERTICAL
CLIMBERS
DRY GRASSES
FLOWERING
GROUND COVER
BULBS
WET GRASSES
A new curved structure design fits both conceptual and physical demands
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MOSSES
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PERCIPITATION
STORAGE
DRAIN
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Organic structure is duplicable with various functions
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Sharing economy is a solution of future high density living cluster
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Historic Neighborhood not only be preserved, but also reborn under the urban context
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MIDTOWN BUSINESS DISTRICT HUDSON YARD
HELL’S KITCHEN
CENTRAL PARK
The air space of Hell’s Kitchen becomes an environmental infrastructure of New York City
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03 HOLDING RIVER FLOWING RAIN Water Infrastructure for 2050 Kolkata Cooperators: Nabi Agzamov, Fu Wang, Elif Unsal Spring 2017
What if we design water context for the future?
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Hooghly is located at the delta of the river Ganga. Two systems at work here: holding (rain) and flowing (river). As Hooghly flows through the capital of West Bengal, Kolkata and its twin city Howrah, nearly five thousand holding (rain) water bodies, known as pukurs, lie largely dry, underutilized and under increasing threat of encroachment. Although there is a potential to link flowing and holding waters of Kolkata, currently there is no connection between them.
Water shaped religious, economical, and social identity of India. Nevertheless, rivers like Ganges, one of the most revered water bodies in India, is also one of the most polluted. One of the most vulnerable areas of the basin is river Hooghly, at the estuary. It owes through, the capital of West Bengal, Kolkata and its twin city Howrah. The area accepts the ow of millions of pilgrims during Durga Pooja and Makar Sankranti festivals when Hooghly serves as a site of holy bathing or immersions for thousands of Hindus. However, this in flux also brings with it issues of pollution and inadequate public amenities.
Among city’s hidden rivers, streams, drains and canals, we can also find large amount of wetlands, lakes, and small ponds or, as they are known in the Bengali culture, “pukurs”. These 5000 rain holding water bodies were traditionally constructed for water collection, obtaining materials, pisciculture, and flood risk reduction, consequently playing a major role in the local economy, ecology and day-to-day lives of the residents. However, after the pipe water distribution was introduced to the city, large number of these water bodies became neglected, pulled up, and polluted. Although majority of the pukur users are from lower socio-economical class with a limited access to city’s piped water, they are at risk of losing pukurs to increasing threat of encroachment.
As the monsoon storms become more frequent and severe, the traditional pipe water infrastructure cannot cope with increasing volumes of water. We believe that there is a potential to link the owing and holding systems of Hooghly and reintegrate these water bodies back into the lives, and traditions of the locals and pilgrims, while also proposing methods of river remediation and employment generation in the process.
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SALT GLANDS
in the surface layers of leaves secrete salt to accumulate in older leaves before they fall.
PROP ROOTS
descend from the trunk to provide additional support.
( breathing roots ) arise from the cable root. Oxygen diffuse throug the spongy tissue of the pneumatophore to the rest of the plant.
CABLE ROOTS
radiate from the trunk. Fine feeding-roots grow off these radial roots and create a stable platform.
Tide Level Differenciates
PNEUMATOPHORES
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Among cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s flowing rivers, streams, drains and canals, one can also find large amount of wetlands, lakes, and small ponds.
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Metaibruz
Garden Reach
Belur
15min
Howrah Salkia
Bally
Konnagar
Rishra
Prinsep Ghat
Barrackpore
Babughat
Shayam Sundar Panihati Ghat
Cossipore
Dakshineswar
Belur Math
Temple
Wetland
Dakshineswar
Industry
Ghat
Ferry Station
Bridge
Water shaped religious, economical, and social identity of West Bengal, and India at large.
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After making room for water and introducing flows to Holds, and Holds to Flows, the storm water overflows can reach the river, and the river can enter the city though permeable surfaces and bioswale, based on natural topography, and existing urban flows. 70
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FLOW THE RAIN
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As the rain storms become more severe and frequent with every monsoon, pukurs provide needed flood mediation.
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The community can be engaged in the reintegration of the derelict pukurs.
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Due to pukursâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; elevation, connecting pukurs to flow the water.
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Larger area is elevated above the other and serves as an employment generator through pisciculture.
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Smaller portions of the ponds are dedicated for household water use.
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The bioswale links help with flood mitigation, allows for circulation, and cleans the water as it travels between pukurs.
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Water flow through several ponds and being cleaned by biological and chemical processes
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RIVER BANK SECTION
HOLD THE RIVER
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As the Rain Flows into Hooghly, it exits at the sites of the urban fabric and the holy river affix, ghats.
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The river serves as a site of holy bathing or immersions for thousands of Hindus.
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Ghats are the connections of urban fabric with the riverfront.
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Through bio remediation process these units improve the water quality before it reaches the ghats, hold and filtrate Hooghly water as it passes through. 96
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As the region faces threats of climate change, and undergo rapid urbanization perhaps it is wise to reintegrate the fragments of the ancient local water infrastructure and employ regional traditions in order to deal with the urban issues of the twenty first century. Perhaps these thousands of units that are fragmented throughout the city, and the region, are capable of not only holding the rain but also rivers themselves.
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04 OUT OF INWOOD Water Infrastructure for 2050 Kolkata
Fall 2015
Social justice matters.
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In order to improve the economic status here, this project, based on current employment statistic, propose a strategy to transform industrial structure of Inwood. Throug rerganizing transportation system and making use of the campus academic resource, the neighborhood can develop certain types of manufacturing indurial and establish a industrial-business district.
The purpose of doing a paralleled analyze of Inwood and Williamsburg, is to find a similar initial situation and see how the rezoning and evolution of Williamsburg can give a development tendency for Inwood. By juxtaposing the two situations through the time, it was possible to understand what the main issues are and what the possible specificities of Inwood are.
By analyzing the current remaining of industries, we tend to define an industrial profile of the strongest situations. To define this portrait, we assumed that the industries still located in high- income zones were more likely to stay as there have particular profiles. Therefore we decided to classify the industries by income location.
Establish portable houses on the roof satisfying the creative studioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s demand of big open space. Also, the accessiblity to manufacturing factory give them potential resource to realize their desgin.
Current buildings can be used as warehouse or mini-storage rental place. Slope design decrease the strength needed to move heavy cargos. Combining manufacturing space with research lab gives workers chance to acess further education, and professional researchers can also use the basic labor force.
Make the boudary environmentally friendly touching the waterfront decrease pollution as much as possible and optimizing working environment as well.
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Inwood Height Park
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R iv er
Sherman Creek
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13.3% 18.0%
12.2%
10.7%
Current Occupations
13.8%
Professional
Transportation
31.4%
Service
$12800/mon
Average Wage $ per week
$5600/mon
$4000/mon $3600/mon
$6800/mon
Retail
Construction
$4400/mon
22% 6%
22%
Educational Health Care
Skillset 8%
16%
26%
Professional
Doctor
Artist Teacher Journalist
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New-Born Industrial
Industrial Solid Situation
Above $60,000 $45,001 - $60,000 $30,001 - $45,000 $15,001 - $30,000 Under $15,000
2013 2009 2002
Industrial and manufacturing Transportation and Utility
Paralleled analysis
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Based on the analysis of current buidlings, keep some of them and reconstruct others
Reorganize and optimze trasportation system
Make full use of delivery system to develop Light Manufacturing Hub
TRANSPORTATION
Delivery+Factory
MANUFACTURING
BEFORE
Financial Support CAMPUS
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Provide Training Opportunities
Construction
Construction
Construction
Transportation
Transportation
Transportation
Manufactruing
Manufactruing
Manufactruing
Retail
Retail
Retail
Service
Service
Service
Professional
Professional
Professional
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Combine campus research projects with manufacturing to spur High-Tech Industry
Select specific types of manufacturing to change into Creative Industry
Light Manufacturing Hub
Build Public Center to provide commercial space and exhibitional place
Delivery Hub
Public Center Change by Commercial Demand
Workshop Factory
Creative Industrial District
Develop Researh Projects High-Tech Hub
Construction
Construction
Construction
Transportation
Transportation
Transportation
Manufactruing
Manufactruing
Manufactruing
Retail
Retail
Retail
Service
Service
Service
Professional
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Transoprtation Hub Manufacturing Workshop Public Center
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In order to supporting the fundamental use of manufacturing development, like cargo delivery and material input, change the 9th Ave into a delivery channel.
Transportation Hub
Due to the analysis of the quality of current buildings, keep using the ones in good condition and reconstruct new buildings at avilable open lots. Manufacturing Workshop
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Residential
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Office
Workshop
Office
Warehouse Warehouse
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Portable houses on the roof can satisfy the creative workshopsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; demand of big open space and convenient accessiblity between manufacturing factories and designing studios .
Transormating some people activity into roof level can create more ground space for manufacturing delivery.
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Reconstruct some of the existing buildings by dividing producting space into small seperated offices and utilize more transparent facades to introduce natural daylight inside.
Due to the analysis of the quality of current buildings, keep using the ones in good condition and reconstruct new buildings at avilable open lots.
Viewing Deck makes the boudary environmentally friendly touching the waterfront. It also decreases productional pollution as much as possible and improve living quality of workers here.
Along the warterfront, new-built offices with nice scenery provide attractive working environment for research people and improve the value of real estate.
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05 BLUR Fast Pace Slow Space Cooperators: Becca Book, Kevin MacNichol, Hansong Cho, Jiapei Li, Caitlin Magill, Abraham Murrell, Eugene Ong, Edward Palka Spring 2016
A Room in Motion
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The pavilion is at once solid and dissolved. A regularized steel frame encloses a soft forest of rubber tubing. The architecture itself vibrates, as you pluck and stretch it out of shape. With enough vibration, the entire structure moves out of focus. The visitor is invited to input their own energy into the system, watching the how a single tube transmits its movement to surrounding elements. You can immerse yourself in the material, using the rubber seats or leaning back into its web with your body. In this room, the vibration surrounds you, and the outside world begins to blur away.
PROPOSE Building design is a sculptural art, where a form is molded until ready for the kiln. But if a room could respond to the movement of our bodies, its walls would begin to dance. This pavilion combines a rectangular steel frame with a billowing gradient of taut rubber tubes. With each pluck of a chord, vibrations ripple around the room. Patterns of rubber contort into elastic seats, where bodies become immersed into the material itself, as the architecture blurs away.
TEST The full scale prototyping was instrumental in gaining a more full understanding of the realities and limitations of our pavilion design. Immediately obvious in the prototyping phase, we came to understand the critical nature of project management and coordination. Throughout the process, we struggled repeatedly to obtain the correct hardware for our system, which meant that our system and joints could not work to their full potential. Screws instead of bolts and smaller than adequate bolts made our early mock ups prone to extreme torquing and even hardware failure with screws and bolts breaking.
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06 UNDER THE PEAK Transitional Design of Tourist Village Spring 2015
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07 BUFFALO Transitional Design of Tourist Village Cooperators: Zarith Pineda, Daiyue Lv, Linshu Huang Fall 2016
Buffalo, New York once a bustling Rust Belt city, is now a city at a crossroads. The 19th and early part of 20th centuries witnessed significant its significant growth as a result of its point of entry into the Erie Canal. Its strategic location as a source of fresh water, transportation hub, and booming grain, steel and automobile economies, made it the second most populous city in New York State. This period of time saw the erection of magnificent structures by canonical architects including Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan, Eliel Saarinen, and Henry Richardson grounded on a plan loosely based by Pierre L’Enfant’s vision for Washington of radiating boulevards. Unfortunately, these imposing buildings now act as relics of a much more prosperous time. In the latter half of the 20th century, an economic recession catalyzed by the rerouting of the Erie Canal, propelled Buffalo into seemingly unsurmountable stagnation. Buffalo’s prosperity seems to be directly correlated to a “shifting point” narrative, that is currently bypassing its city limits. Today the notable regional industries such as hydro-power production are centered in bordering Niagara Falls.
The narrative of this urban analysis focuses on the periods of shift throughout Buffalo’s history, highlighting its growth patterns, location as a strategic transportation hub, role as a border city, and energy export epicenter. It is through an analysis of these systems that the “region” of Buffalo aims to be defined. A region which hypothesizes a multi scalar and international network of systems whose future success depends on an aggressive “refocusing” strategy.
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This thesis is working on the research and analysis of how Greenwich Village went through community preservation, city gentrification and urban renewal from the 1960s to conclude what the potential elements to make a historical neighborhood survive in contemporary urban expansion and gentrification.
Greenwich Village, as an enclave of the avant-grade and alternative culture during the period of 1950s â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1960s, has empowered locals to collectively oppose authoritative figures and oppose the institution of development to preserve Greenwich Villageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s residential and bohemian character. Now, even the exterior buildings facades have been protected, the diversity, both of uses and population, has been undermined a lot. The transition is more obvious in socioeconomic than in physical space, which is more critical in judging whether a neighborhoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cultural and historic value has been lost or not.
In order to scrutinize this topic deeply, the thesis is divided into three sections. Chapter one focus on analysis of the neighborhood context and building typology to found out the relation between the historic neighborhood preservation and its physical identity. Chapter two is researching on how the locals fight with urban expansion into this residential area. Chapter three claims the potential elements for a historic neighborhood to be preserved both from socioeconomic and spatial aspects.
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Greenwich Village is a unique example of historic neighborhood that was preserved under the surge of urban development in New York City. This achievement results from not only the neighborhood communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fighting, but also the physical elements including complex street context and extraordinary building quality. Comparing to other villages in Manhattan, like Chelsea and Harlem, the long history of Greenwich Village provided it high preservation value resulting in a rejection both on reforming of the urban context and increasing of living density.
Geologically, Greenwich Village located at the nucleus of Manhattan, attaching downtown financial district and midtown business center. East-west stretching from Hudson River to Harlem. The advantage of its location made it as an ideal place for residents to erect their buildings in the early period, also resulted in increasing of land value and continuous pressure of urban development. The boundaries of current existing Greenwich Village encompass the section within the traditional area which best retains, in physical form, the spatial character of the community and its architecture of aesthetic interest.
The original agricultural function of Greenwich Village gave it a hybridized tree-line street texture, which invisibly protected the convenience of developing auto-vehicles. This area was already occupied from Dutch colonized period. After using as a farming area, due to the formation of a public meat market in 1812, residential blocks began to establish at existing farming context. Therefore, each fragment had their unique grid and the whole neighborhoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s street pattern became extremely complex. The gaps among each neighborhood, on the one hand, rejected urban commuters and modern vehicles, on the other hand, enclaved a comfort residential area at the core of Manhattan.
However, the opening Seventh Avenue below Greenwich Avenue broke the isolation between this residential village and other places of NYC. Seventh Avenue became an alternative connection for the Sixth Avenue from its upper area to downtown, and these two main traffic streams transfer the residential area between them totally naked into the urban environment. This change again rises huge interest in developing this neighborhood and rising living density. Simultaneously, the increasing of openness of this area and the existing of the old building results in a mixed district of both culture heritage and commercial activities.
So far, the neighborhood context still exists as it used to be, but the running of West Side subway line and commercial activities give this neighborhood a new role in the city. People can also enjoy the historic street view with the existing of old buildings.
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Another critical reason of the preservation for Greenwich Village is its good quality and high cultural value of old buildings built in different periods. Since the buildings’ ownership belong to several generations of one family, most residential buildings still keep their old appearance and their original function as residential. Another reason of the buildings’ high quality is the accumulation of countless architects’ effort under different cultural backgrounds. The cooperation among builders, businessmen, and artists gave this neighborhood a comforting environment to achieve its building archive from 18th century to early 20th.
Greenwich Village surprisingly kept its mainly residential function in several generations, also collected varied style of buildings from this long period. From 1790 to 1835, most tenements were Federal Style, performed by two stories above basement, a large rear yard, and highly detailed craft skills; From 1828 to 1848, Greek Revival style was popular by its temple form and classical details physically appearing as three stories above basement, with top low attic and small and low windows on the facades; From 1850 to 1865, a wave of Italianate style rose the building height into four stories with firstly appearance of cornices carried along the sides of corner houses; From 1860 to 1875, wealthy owners pursue French Second Empire style to reflect the glories by the salient difference and mansard roof at top floors. Following with these typical early building styles, other appearances, like the Queen Anne Style, the Romanesque Revival style and Classicism of the Electric Period, also made a contribution of the diversity of tenement types of Greenwich Village and rose the cultural preservation value of the whole neighborhood physical context.
As the connection between physical space and sociological element, the mixed function of the buildings had a significant necessity on the historic building preservation. Residential use was not only the primary function, the transformation of properties also gave old buildings an optimized social condition to be preserved. Besides, some of the buildings have their spatial advantage in serving for artistic production, like roof windows on top floors or sizable open space with the cultural neighborhood atmosphere and low rental price. The concentration of artists made significant contribution to the community’s fighting to be developed. Moreover, the commercial functions inserted in later period brought this neighborhood a new value in the urban background. Commercial activities and tourism emphasized the historic value of Greenwich Village’s physical appearance, which transfers developing pressure into cultural value benefits. This diversity of function enhanced the connection between residents’ living environment and working space, resulting in an awareness of community participation.
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In the 1950s – 1960s, due to the development of political, cultural and economic aspects, Greenwich faced a huge challenge on its planning policy and neighborhood preservation. Started from the 1930s, Robert Moses was in charge of redeveloping large sections of New York City, including many big projects like city bridge, public parks, highway and housing projects. These urban renewal actions combining with the decrease of population generated huge development pressure on Greenwich Village and other urban historic neighborhoods. The demolition of neighborhood’s residential environment, rising of land value and losing of community identity would be unavoidable if the old neighborhoods went through urban redevelopment surge.
For Greenwich Village, locals’ awareness of their historic value and cultural artistic influential encouraged the formation of several communities to fought for preservation. A surge of activism and creativity had already formed from 1912 to 1917 as harbingers of modern culture in this famous artistic district. The bohemians enforced their freedom of speak, think, love and against other classes. Of course, the physical advantage both on convenient location and affordable rental price were the reasons for artists there eagerly protect their existing cultural environment from modernism intruding.
The fights between urban developers and Greenwich Village community organizations started from the 1950s. The first force threatens the neighborhood was the plan of constructing a roadway through Washington Square directed by Robert Moses. Villagers tried to use the cultural value of this public park to remind developers’ awareness of the importance of the spatial form of an integrated neighborhood, competing with the idea that the roadways could decrease the congestion of lower Manhattan. Then, leading by Shirley Hayes, the Washington Square Park Committee was formed trying to resist Moses’ planning of increasing the land value to build more housing for the middle class.
The fight was won by the community in the end and, more meaningfully, this victory led many urban theorists focused on urban historic neighborhoods’ cultural value while develop and planning urban forms. It became a turning point of urban renewal among many big cities at that periods. The modern urban planning principles were challenged by the awareness of culture heritage and historic preservation of city planners even developers.
As the rise of villagers’ engagement of protecting their neighborhood, several community organizations and urban experts were formed under different occasions to against continuously development pressure and saved Greenwich Village’s original neighborhood context. The first community media method called Villager was published from 1933 as an organization that gather residents’ opinions and express them in a formal way. During fighting with the highway proposal, this community publishing existed as community’s voice and played an important role in approving a policy to ban all but emergency vehicles from the park so that protected the pure community space.
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Another local organization hugely facilitated civic engagement of Greenwich in the 1960s called the Village Voice, which formed the Village Independent Democrats later to speak for the community. The Village Independent Democrats was organized by lower-middle class of Greenwich, including professionals in law, business, and communications. The main goal of VID was to increase civic participation in the neighborhood. They supported De Sapio, both a village leader and a New York county leader, to propose a reform movement to encourage citizens’ engagement. In that period, the change of demographic of Greenwich, leaving of working class and Irish and Italian, triggered the policies caring more about ethnic enclaves, which also resulted in the fact that Jews dominated the leadership position and they expressed aesthetic value and living habits for more civic passion. Even the reform movement only lasted for a short time, VID contributed a lot in forming a model community of participatory democracy.
Besides the emergent counterculture, the artists in Greenwich also provided a significant effort in the transition of the neighborhood by using art productions to spur audiences’ consciousness of community participation. The most nourished example is Living Theatre, which was established by two pacifist anarchists, Beck and Malina. Under the background of off-Broadway movement, Greenwich became an ideal alternative for Broadway actors to continue their art pursue. Resulted from the community participation surge in the neighborhood, Living Theatre tried to use productions involving audience into the awareness of peace and reality thinking. The shows engaged in breaking boundary between stage and reality to stimulate audiences’ eagerness for libel, which also push the community consciousness into a higher focus point at that time.
The artistic coalitions, like Living Theatre, not only influenced citizens on awareness level, some of them also made achievement on approving policies to protect public spaces and community common. As a result of the ferment in the coffeehouse district, Greenwich Village by 1960 became the epicenter of the national folk music renaissance. However, due to the gradual increase of land value in some of the village area and the conflicts happened between different races, Washington Square became the joint place of counterculture, which performed by the folk musicians. This historic public park was thrilled by the demolition of union community. Then, the policy articulated the defense of folk singing of that area was in effect of supporting multicultural-coexisting status in Greenwich Village. This effort also emphasized the integrity of the neighborhood’s community identity.
The success of protecting the neighborhood from urban development to keep its cultural uniqueness and spatial identity is the result of the cooperation of politic engagement and cultural separation. Both of them tried to increase civic participation in community protection. It’s a pioneering model for other neighborhood to have their cultural consciousness and reminded urban experts of the value of cultural heritage while increasing urban density. The fighting experience of Greenwich Village changed the density of historic neighborhoods in Manhattan and also became a turning point of delirious urban expansion.
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“Is Greenwich Village really a community? Yes, at least it’s as close as we come to it on the island of Manhattan. By “community” I don’t mean just an area within certain boundaries. Across the country, many of those areas exist which aren’t really communities at all. I do mean an area within which people feel a strong identity. “
Community is always considered to be the group of people, living in a neighborhood, who keep having the same lifestyle and identity closely representing the whole neighborhood’s atmosphere. Its definition by social characters instead of geological location emphases the connection between residents and physical space. Greenwich Village used to be a neighborhood having huge diversity on use, including industrial, commercial, and residential use. Its community was formed by the commercial activity and residential affairs. The neighborhood provided a completed both working and living environment for residents, and the complex relationship inside them became the original power of community. Pursuing the same goal, which accord to most individual’s profit, is the primary foundation of a community. In 1960s, Greenwich Village was famous for a huge amount of artist and bohemian characters accommodating. The neighborhood provided them an ideal place both for artistic creation and austere living. The community kept running in a balanced commercial system which have the ability to self-living, also having certain amount of trade with the whole city.
When the first tendency of gentrification happened in late 1960s, the community’s living place started to change, and the transformation of physical space also resulted into the disappearing of its identity. City planning forced industrial factor moving out of the central place replacing by more achievable and more profitable commercial buildings. The loss of one type of use in the neighborhood broke the whole working and living system among the community. Decreasing in the diversity of uses made this neighborhood more adaptable in city-scale economic development, but it also stole the identify of a community.
As the advantaging of people’s physical living and working space, the definition of a community’s identity should move forward as well. Since the progression of transportation increase the distance between living place and working place, a neighborhood-scale area become very limited in its functions. Therefore, it’s getting more difficult to define a community by geological area. On the other hand, the identity of community would rely more on the interest relationship among a certain group of people. Instead of representing a community by residential area, a neighborhood shows its influence more on its residents’ socioeconomic similarity.
“The district, and indeed as many of its internal parts as possible, must serve more than one primary function; preferably more than two. These must insure the presence of people who go outdoors on different schedules and are in the place for different purposes, but who are able to use many facilities in common (Jacobs, 1961, 196).”
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Primary uses function as economical anchors and stimulate secondary uses, enterprises that grow in response to the presence of the people who are there for primary uses. Viewing from a small scale, primary uses can provide abundant jobs for residents, which could generate complex relations among the living sector and working sector, helping to better form identified community. From a city-scale, a neighborhood with mixed primary uses is more powerful in exchanging both labor force and financial benefits with other ones. In terms of the complexity of a neighborhood’s diversity, Jane Jacobs’ theory of “The Conditions for City Diversity” can be cited to understand how she thought an ideal neighborhood with diversity should be. From her four conditions that are indispensable in generating enough diversity to make a city flourish, her opinion also shows the elements make a neighborhood-scale area become vibrant in developing. The diversity of primary uses ensures that people will come to a place for a primary purpose, such as factories, offices, dwellings or schools. Physical space of a historic neighborhood can be represented by two aspects, neighborhood appearance and district context. From historic preservation viewpoint, neighborhood appearance is not only representing the cultural elements or historic characters in building characters. An appearance is a physical heritage of people’s living culture which records locals’ living habits and tradition. When you viewing at the neighborhood’s context, the physical space highly dominating residents’ socioeconomic status. In a building’s scale, the composition of its room size reflect characteristics of the community, such as income, family size, and average age of the residents. On the other hand, the types of buildings also restrict their residents’ economic level. Small size apartments are hard to serve for big family or rich people, which will result into a community composing by young people who accommodate by rental rooms. A neighborhood’s street context also decide how this neighborhood will serve for its residents. Districts with lower living density are more likely to be occupied by rich residents and rising its land value. The quality of living environment is both a result of community’s income standard and its educational level, which also indicates that the physical space and socioeconomic status are closely related. Facing the tendency of gentrification, old buildings’ physical spatial character help keeping the original living habits as well as community’s identity. Before the expansion of people’s available working distance, neighborhoods were always enclaved with buildings in different kinds of uses. Residential buildings had limited serving radiant to commercial districts and industrial area, some of them even combining with each other and appearing without obvious boundaries. However, after urban developing and living quality updating, these spatial relations are existing as a restriction for the improvement of land value. Then some rezoning policy and erecting new or higher buildings are the only method in these historic neighborhood to pursue better usage of their spatial advantages. Therefore, preserving the original building texture dramatically conflict with the elevation of city economic status, the solutions exist in two directions. One is to replace original community by new one who have higher economic status, so that the neighborhood can keep its residential function. The other strategy, in order to protect original community’s living place, is to change the neighborhoods function using its advantages to find new value for the city. If the new type of use can well coordinate with residential function, the community would be successfully surviving. Otherwise, like inserting tourism into historic village always result in the broken of basic living environment, locals would be forced to move out as well.
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From the discussion above, as urban development overwhelming historic neighborhood, the change happening inside the neighborhood is more complex than expected, both showing in sociological aspect and physical spatial aspect. For those historic neighborhoods, whether they can survive in the urban renewal wave depends on many elements. First, the spatial appearance and geological properties result in their potential possibilities of developing, their invisible land value, and the developing or reforming pressure. Secondly, buildings quality, built year and architectural styles decide their cultural value. Comparing and evaluating between these two aspects will directly result in the developing pressure of the neighborhood and its growing direction. Viewing from socioeconomic perspective, demographic statistics of a neighborhood is only a result of its transformation. However, the diversity of its function and the relation between the residentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; working and living space are the key point of the neighborhoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lifespan. The more diverse the use are, the more vivid the residential life would be, and the level of civic participation and community engagement will be critical of cooperate the whole neighborhoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s power to protect its original space. Greenwich Village is a successful sample of historic neighborhood that had been preserved due to its extraordinary old architectures with high cultural value and the effort of different organizations and urban experts. The preservation case rose the consciousness of urban cultural heritage throughout the whole country.
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11 THE REVIVING OF LOST SPACE Urban Context Architectural Design of Village by Pagoda Spring 2014
Conducted investigation of economic, social, and cultural factors based on new understanding about the role of urban village in urbanization characteristic of China. This project design provide a sample of using roof space and vacant room in city village to develop agriculture farming. By introducing new activity for locals, it also create a new residential and commercial model ro revive old buildings in a city.
After analysing the site context, we draw the conclusion that using new agriculture techniques to transform Nanguan Village into ecological city farm. According from village status, form and texture, we design a convinient and practical way to revive some abandoned houses.
As time goes, the green seed will be sepreaded by crops planting, cultivation, growing. Meanwhile, this design not only creats a ecological residential area, but also optimizes local lifestyle even more makes economic income.
Due to population growth and food shortages worldwidely, we combine the demolition of villages and the chance of a green reviving toupdate the current city form of China. And we also hope to promote and expand this mode to larger area.
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12 UNDER THE WAVE Urban Context Architectural Design of Village by Pagoda Summer 2014
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Through history, each Chinese has a deep relationship with Bamboo. I focus on the flexibility of bamboo and create a shelter that truely belongs to the nature.
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Adjustable dense living solution with courtyard for each unit.
Focusing on the apperance of tourists suburban villages, the methology is to utilize their locational advantages and natural reasources to create a new business-residential model. This project is commited to explore a topological system as a method to reorganize trandational village into a multiple-level courtyards.
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